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Greg Wier did not ease into adulthood — he was forced into it.
Four months after graduating high school, he was married. Five months later, he was a father. With no safety net and few opportunities in the early 1980s, survival became a matter of discipline and resolve.

At nineteen, he started his first business: a janitorial company cleaning apartment hallways. It failed quickly. He lost his only account and was dismissed from the job. But the lesson was permanent. If he wanted control of his future, he would have to build it himself.

Greg took a job as a security guard. It changed the trajectory of his life. He learned the business from the inside — operations, sales, trust, and how power actually moves. Years later, he partnered with others to launch a security company that grew rapidly. On the surface, it looked like success. Privately, it was unraveling. A partner was stealing, supporting two families, and driving the company toward court judgments, bankruptcy, and multiple attempts on Greg’s life.

Greg walked away and rebuilt.

Then rebuilt again.

Another company collapsed under theft, drugs, and internal disorder. In 2002, Greg made a defining decision: no partners. no excuses. only accountability. What followed was his strongest rise. He built a major security company, expanded into residential real estate, and entered the music business. In 2005, the sale of his security company made him a millionaire at forty-one.

Greg reinvested in music, working with national artists and developing new talent until one artist chose self-destruction over success and the business collapsed without warning. He responded with his boldest move yet: purchasing a nine-story, 100,000-square-foot commercial office building. It became the base of operations for a new structure — a guard company, an entertainment company, and an electronics business, each occupying its own floor.

For the next twelve years, those companies expanded beyond expectation. The cost was personal. Partners left. Greg remained. Seven days a week. On call at all hours. The pressure was constant.

In 2022, he sold the business — the most relieving and most difficult decision of his life. What he built was gone, and one truth became clear: the work was never the mistake. Sharing a vision with people who did not carry it was.

Today, Greg waits — not in retreat, but in preparation. Preparing to return on his own terms, with full control of the vision he once built.

His story is not about luck.
It is not about timing.
It is not about chance.

It is about endurance.
It is about consequence.
it is about finishing what you start.

greg wier

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